[Arran]

Sounds like one zero too many in that appraisal, even in California I assume. Compare that with Pawn Stars where Rick Harrison says he gets $300 for them fixed up and refinished, that makes sense although still more then I would pay. On that same Auction Wars show some so called expert claimed that a BMW Isetta (Steve Urkel car) one of the guys found could be worth between $40,000 to 60,000 restored, on what planet did he get those numbers from? Collector car values are and have been well documented and established through both magazines and books for a long time, and I doubt if you could get $15,000 for an absolute cherry one. have there been a number of Isettas going through the Barrett Jackson auction for inflated prices that nobody else knows about but this guy?
But then again there is a guy on You Tube (the guy that can't pronounce chassis properly) that claims his RCA Radiola 62 console, same as my Canadian Westinghouse 89 but without a tone control switch, is worth $350-400, in what Jamaican or Hong Kong dollars? He also claimed that there was $50 worth of parts in a late 40s early 50s tube portable he bought, how? Of course he claims that old radios are getting harder and harder to find too, but anyone browsing craigslist and fleabay would find that hard to believe.
Regards
Arran